Bedtime stories
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Dandelion Hill Bedtime Story for Ages 2–4
It's past bedtime, your 3-year-old is still bouncing on the bed, and you have about five minutes of reading left in you. You want something short and soft to say slowly, in a low voice, while the room gets quiet.
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Diwali Bedtime Stories for Five Nights
Every Diwali your children ask why the family lights the lamps, and the stories you heard from your grandmother come back to you only in pieces. This year, once the lamps are lit, you sit on the edge of the bed and read them the story for that night.
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Frozen Pond Bedtime Story for Ages 5-7: A Slow Winter Science Story
Under the Frozen Pond is a slow bedtime story for children aged 5 to 7, to be read aloud by a parent or grown-up. You, the child in bed, travel in your imagination down through the ice of a winter pond, one layer at a time: the ice that floats, the cold green water just under the lid, the deeper water that stays a little above freezing, a resting bluegill, and a pickerel frog in the mud. The pace winds down toward sleep, with short sentences, "(pause)" cues and breathing cues. Nothing frightening happens.
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Guru Nanak Bedtime Stories for the Ten Nights Before Gurpurab
The children's grandfather tells the sakhis from memory over video calls, and they want another one every night. With Gurpurab ten nights away, you'd like a story for each of those nights in front of you, including the ones he doesn't get to.
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How an Island Is Born, a Hawaii Volcano Bedtime Story
Ever since the family trip to see the glow at Kīlauea, your nine-year-old has been asking at bedtime how the island under your house was made. Tonight you can answer with a story.
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Manatees at the Warm Spring Bedtime Story
Ever since the family saw the manatees at the spring in January, your five-year-old has wanted to sleep like a manatee. Tonight you dim the lamp and read a slow story that ends with a mother manatee resting in warm water beside her calf.
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My First Sleepover Bedtime Story and Brave Kit
Your seven-year-old said yes to a best friend's birthday sleepover, and tonight at bedtime the tears came: what if it is too dark in someone else's house? The sleepover is next week, and you want the nights in between to make it feel smaller.
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Rain on the Roof Bedtime Story for Ages 2-4: Where Raindrops Go
A slow bedtime story for a toddler or preschooler who is unsettled by the sound of rain on the roof or the window above the bed. Rain on the Roof turns the tapping into a lullaby, then follows one raindrop on its trip: from a cloud, onto the roof, into a puddle, up into the air with the morning sun, and back into a cloud again.
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Red Bird in the Snow: A Cardinal Bedtime Story for Ages 2-4
A slow, quiet bedtime story for a child aged 2 to 4, written for the grown-up who reads it aloud: a grandmother, grandfather, parent or caregiver at the end of a winter day, or at the window the morning after.
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Sleepy Bear in the Winter Den Bedtime Story
It has been dark since before dinner, the house is finally quiet, and your three-year-old is wide awake and asking about bears. You want a story that slows everything down and ends with everyone asleep, the cubs included.
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Sonoran Desert Night Bedtime Story
It is bedtime in Tucson, the window is still warm, and your six-year-old is sure the desert out there is empty and asleep. You know better: after dark the saguaro flowers open, a bat comes for their nectar, and a kangaroo rat hops out of its burrow.
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The Bakery Before Dawn Bedtime Story
Every morning your five-year-old squeezes a slice of bread and asks how it got so puffy, and every morning there's no time to explain before the bus. Save the answer for bedtime, told slowly, from nine o'clock to dawn.
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The Garden Under the Snow: A Winter Bedtime Story for Ages 5-7
The Garden Under the Snow is a slow winter bedtime story for children ages 5 to 7 who wonder whether the flower bulbs they planted are cold. You lie in bed while snow falls, then imagine slipping down through the snow into the soil, where seeds, an earthworm and tulip bulbs are resting. Short breathing pauses are written between the scenes, and the story winds down to goodnight.
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The Hill Will Be There, a Sledding Bedtime Story
The snow pants are drying by the door, those cheeks are still pink, and your little one is tucked in bed asking to go down the hill one more time.
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The Same Moon, a Deployment Bedtime Story and Countdown Chain
In a few weeks your child's dad leaves for nine months, and you will be doing bedtime on your own for all of them. Your 5-year-old already asks how many more nights until Dad comes home, and you want an answer they can see and hold.
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The Snowplow at Night: A Winter Bedtime Story for Ages 2-4
A slow winter bedtime story for children aged 2 to 4 who love trucks and wonder about the plow that rumbles past at night. The story is told to "you", the child tucked in bed, as the snowplow passes the window: its blinking lights slide across the wall, the big blade scrapes the snow aside, salt sprinkles out the back, and the driver pours a warm cup from a thermos. The pace slows page by page, with soft sounds to say aloud and a few "breathe in... and out" pauses. Nothing frightening happens.
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